11, Stanley Place

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW STANLEY PLACE 595-1/3/368 (South side) 28/07/55 No.11 (Formerly Listed as: STANLEY PLACE Nos 1-9 (consec), No 10 & Nos 11-14 (consec))

GV II

Town house, now with No.9 Stanley Place (qv) a language school. c1780. Flemish bond brown brick with grey slate roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys plus mansard attic. Painted stone plinth; 2 damaged stone steps, west, to door of 4 fielded panels above 2 flush panels with a plain replaced overlight in a replaced timber doorcase; 2 replaced 4-pane recessed sashes to first and third storeys, 2 recessed 12-pane sashes to second storey; painted stone sills and slightly recessed painted gauged-brick heads; 4-pane sashes in 2 dormers with pilasters and pediments in mansard; 2 shared west chimneys. The rear of the main block has an altered door with overlight, a 4-pane sash to second storey and 2 to third storey; two 12-pane dormer sashes in mansard. A long 2-storey hip-roofed rear wing, with lower storey altered, has sashes of 6, 12, and 16 panes in west face of upper storey. INTERIOR: hall has looped radial-bar fanlight to stairwell, simple radial-bar fanlight to rear lobby and 4-panel doors to rear rooms. The front room has 6-panel door, panelled embrasures and shutters and cornice with patterned frieze. The dogleg stair to second storey is rebuilt in keeping, to give access to No.9 Stanley Place (qv). The front second storey room has door of 5 fielded panels, panelled embrasures and cornice with fluted frieze; door of 6 fielded panels to back room. Original open-string open-well stair to third and attic storeys has shaped brackets, stick balusters, diminishing newels interrupting swept handrail; 4-panel doors in third storey and attic.

Listing NGR: SJ4014266254